New France Trivia Quiz

Answer: seigneuries

Seigneurs ran the seigneuries. A roture was one of the many strips of land that made up a seigneury. Each roture was farmed by a different family.

Answer: a store

A seigneur was not required to provide a worker with a store because the worker would have brought his own tools from France and the workers would be growing their own food.

Answer: habitant

Habitants were families who worked on their roture. An habitant had to pay annual rent ("cents et rents") to the seigneur.

Answer: True

A whole family would work on one roture. The women would cook and make clothes. The men would work in the field.

Answer: fur traders

"Coureurs de bois" were usually young men who wanted adventure. They would leave the seigneury and set out into the wilderness to trade with the Natives. They were often not the most pleasant of people. They were often drunk and had wild parties. They were also not very kind to the Natives.

They would trade a dollar of goods for a pelt that they could sell for ten dollars. They often had heart attacks because of the heavy packs they carried on their backs. The government didn't like the "coureurs des bois" because they thought that their way of life went against their religious beliefs.

The government made the "coureurs des bois" buy licences to trade and fined them heavily if they were caught trading without a licence. Most traders disregarded this regulation and continued to trade without licences.

Answer: Samuel de Champlain

Cartier was the first explorer of New France and went on three voyages down the St. Lawrence. He tried to start a settlement upstream from Stadacona (Quebec City) but it failed when after a harsh winter and scurvy killed most of the men and rest decided to leave. If only Cook had been there.

He could have shown them the way to cure scurvy. Columbus wasn't even French. He discovered America.

Answer: False

Children were usually given presents on New Year's Eve.

Answer: 1759

New France had been battling against the British for quite some time. New France lost the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and it was one of their most signifigant losses. 1760 was the year Montreal was defeated. 1763 was the year New France surrendered to the British.

Answer: True

This treaty was made in 1763. Even after the British took over, people were allowed to preserve their heritage.

Answer: all of these

The area of New France was huge. It covered what are now four provinces. In Quebec, people still speak French. In Newfoundland and PEI people have adapted to the British way and speak English.